Anyone knows of researchers that compare #Mice and #Rats behaviour (ideally in complex tasks)? It could be in #SpatialCognition but also in other fields. Papers that directly compare both species would also be great.

#BehaviouralNeuroscience #NeuroMice #NeuroRats

The #Tolman "sunburst maze" results (from 1946) are often used to demonstrate shortcut ability in rats... but do they really? More on this later!

For now, would you know of any #ComputationalModels that were tested in this protocol (whether they replicate the original results or not)? We know of a few (well... 4) but would like to make sure we are not missing any.

#BehaviouralNeuroscience #SpatialCognition #Shortcuts #CognitiveMap #Neuroscience (kind of)

Anyone has thoughts about this? Couldn't it be the mouse eating its "friend" (yes that's much less romantic I know)?

Disclaimer, I haven't read the papers in detail yet so it could be 100% what they say

https://fediscience.org/@DieterLukas/114041199284110774 (quoting @DieterLukas )

#BehaviouralNeuroscience #NeuroMice

With the current situation in the #US, several of my former colleagues there are looking for a #PostDocJob in #Europe, to do #BehaviouralNeuroscience or #ComputationalNeuroscience in #SpatialCognition (or adjacent).
Lots of hashtags I know..

Do you know a #EU or #UK #Neuroscience lab looking to hire a postdoc in these fields? Let me know and I'll pass it on to them!

Edit: adding #RodentResearch and #humanresearch for the species concerned (in this case)

#NeuroMethods question:
Has anyone found a good, reliable, automatized way to deliver small liquid reward amounts for rodent experiments?

We’ve been using a pressurized air system with solenoid valves (from McMaster) but they are not very reliable and the quantity delivered fluctuates with time and depends on the actual valve…

We were thinking of testing out the Open Neuroscience / #LaubachLab syringe pump but someone just mentioned they are not that reliable for small volumes (1-10 microliters). Anyone else has feedback on them?

Anyone doing liquid reward delivery for rodent who has found the Valve Graal??
#Neuroscience #BehaviouralNeuroscience

Hey all, still as part of the #MoveToMasto Movement, and because we’re a bunch of honest people, let’s list all the things we think could be improved here on #Mastodon:
(I’ll start - in no specific order. I've also added workarounds when I knew about them)
(See this other post for the positive aspects)

[1] No feedback on your boosts: do people like them? boost them? 🤷​
[2] You can’t easily see all the answers to someone else’s post
[unless you go to their instance's website]
[3] Some great-looking accounts haven’t actually been active for a long time
[but you can see "last active date" on your "follows and followers" Settings]
[4] you can't easily quote posts
[except with some apps, also this is coming soon in Masto!]
[5] You can easily miss very relevant content
[a customizable algo might be coming at some point on our instance!]
[6] (very specific to me) there are not enough #BehaviouralNeuroscience or #NeuroEthology people
[if you know any, tell them to come here!]
[7] the new search is great but doesn’t search ALL of Mastodon’s public posts
[you can always do a search from outside, say with DuckDuckGo]
[8] you can't easily see only the posts of a profile
[but you can use https://justmytoots.com/ for this]
[9] …?

Please do add your own!

Edit: I updated the list, thanks to contributions of @diazona, @thefalcon 🙏​

How to best sound-proof a door between two rooms?

Say I have a rat maze experiment that involves sounds and I don’t want to disrupt my colleagues’ experiments.
Or say my rats get distracted by the noises next door and I don’t want to have loud white noise during my task.
In this case the door is almost never in use, although it would be ideal if it could work on a door that’s in use as well.

#SoundProofing #Neuroscience #BehaviouralNeuroscience

PS: I cannot replace the door. The sound seems to come from the space between the door and the door frame.